"Past troubles within the U.S. financial system continue to generate a great deal of feverish commentary from allegedly wise minds in the economic commentariat about how to fix what was broken," writes John Tamny at Real Clear Markets. However, so that "we can avoid a repeat of the horrors felt in the markets when the federal government used money taken from the private sector

"Will the economic recovery be enduring-V shaped? Collapse after a short time-W shaped? For the middle class, it may be none at all-an X," writes Peter Morici. Ok, enough! Seriously. This letter-shape recovery fetish is starting to freak us out a little bit. See:The Economist: